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I almost had a team fired for "too many lines of code" when I was there :D A billionaire CEO went berserk and it took considerable amount of effort to cool him

by bitL 4y ago

I almost had a team fired for "too many lines of code" when I was there :D A billionaire CEO went berserk and it took considerable amount of effort to cool him down.

Zancarius 4y ago
Now THAT'S bizarre. Was that because the team was making others look bad by outperforming them via the LOC metric? lol...
- bitL 4y ago
  No, that was because that team did a rewrite of an existing product and one of the "optimistic" reasons for the rewrite was to make the code smaller...